Is there a need for health promotion?

Here are a few of the latest statistics to support the need for corporate health promotion. Feel free to use them while you launch support for a health promotion program at your company.

• Approximately 95 percent of the $1.4 TRILLION that we spend as a nation on medical care costs goes directly to medical care services while approximately ONLY 5 percent is allocated to preventing disease and health promotion.
• At least 70 percent of all medical care claims are due to modifiable health risks (i.e. smoking, obesity, alcohol use) that are 100 percent preventable.
• The excess costs of an worker that smokes is $960 per year, $401 for excess weight, $370 for high cholesterol, and $343 for high blood pressure.
• If an worker has 2 out of the 3 of these risks factors, you can see it really adds up to total costs to have them as an worker.
• Healthy employees are typically happier, more satisfied, and more productive in their work as well as their personal life.
• 65 percent of American adults are not actively engaged in regular physical activity and–more than 30 percent of adult Americans are OBESE!

As you can tell there is a need for corporate health promotion and not just for adults, but children as well. Corporate health promotion is just a wonderful way to meet the requirements of the masses all in one location!

When an worker that is also a spouse or parent learns something in the workplace about improving their health they share the information with their family as well.